Africa Centre

Africa Centre’s goal is to create a platform where arts, culture and knowledge creation become cat

We provide a space dedicated to the celebration, creation and performance of contemporary African artistic and intellectual expression. We recognize that this voice is the fruit of an ever evolving conversation, argument and counter-argument and as such the Africa Centre aims to reflect this multiplicity of identity, be proactive as well as reactive and always provocative. The Africa Centre is a h

othouse for avant-garde ideas, sewing original avenues for exchange and debate. A brain trust with capacity to project manage, partner with other organizations, sponsor, curate and develop an archive of resources. We are a curious citizen committed to social activism and a sustainable future, as well as the capacity of art to enhance the full range of the human experience. The Africa Centre was established in 2005 as an international arts and culture centre and social innovator based in Cape Town, South Africa. The vision of the Africa Centre is brought to life with a number of projects that either play out through the calendar year, or online. They are the fruit of our determination to actively participate in altering and enriching cultural and social exchange in society. The Africa Centre presents a fleet of projects that include:
Artist in Residency Programme – in partnership with eight residencies from around the world, this project will award, across artistic disciplines, eight residencies for 2011/2
* Badilisha Poetry X-Change – weekly online podcasts that celebrate the languages, cultures and styles of presenting pan-African poetry
* Infecting the City – a public arts festival that stages and exhibits thought-provoking works in the communal spaces of Cape Town
* Pan-African Space Station – a genre-busting exploration of global African music that turns on sound interventions across Africa via its online radio station.
* Space for Pan African Research Creation and Knowledge – a Pan-African initiative of experimental multi-disciplinary residencies, workshops, exhibitions, publications and performances centered on innovative approaches to urban space.
* Spier Contemporary – the largest visual and performance art biennale in Africa, featuring artwork from over 100 artists at each of its iterations.
* Talking Heads – a multi–layered, knowledge-sharing platform conceived to profile the ideas, visions and manifestations of the extraordinary people living on this continent.
* WikiAfrica – an international collaboration that, through a range of crucial interventions, redresses the critical imbalance of factual information about Africa on Wikipedia.

01/04/2019

Call for Applications: World Bank Scholarships Program

World Bank Scholarships Program scholarships

28/03/2019

We're delighted to bring the 2018 Artists in Residency Application season to a close with this announcement of our AIR - Bellagio Winners! Well done! http://ow.ly/gwJT30od2g4

21/03/2019

Africa Centre will be taking ITC to Mbombela. There is so much talent and i am excited to be part of this project. Looking forward in visiting the Province. Watch out here we come!!

07/03/2019

Calling for Applications (Nairobi - based Opportunity.)
Public Events at the McMillan Memorial Libraries.
Application Deadline: 14th March 2019
http://ow.ly/UTuH30nX3Ep

Early Bird Tickets: Julie Mehretu & Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi in Conversation | ISCP 25th Anniversary Spring Fundraiser

07/03/2019

Friends in New York, our Artists in Residency partner, Rohina Ali is hosting their 25th Anniversary Spring Fundraiser on 4th April. Do support this incredible space.

Early Bird Tickets: Julie Mehretu & Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi in Conversation | ISCP 25th Anniversary Spring Fundraiser

Celebrated Contemporary African Art Curator Bisi Silva Has Passed Away

13/02/2019

We're gutted to hear of Bisi Silva's passing. She served Africa Centre's program on several occasions in various capacities. May her work continue to live through those she worked with and inspired. Rest, Bisi.

Celebrated Contemporary African Art Curator Bisi Silva Has Passed Away The independent curator and founder of Lagos' Centre for Contemporary Art lost her battle with cancer.

08/02/2019

Meet the AIR 2018 Award Winners. Well done!
http://www.africacentre.net/air-2018-winner-announcement/

06/02/2019

Meet Wangui Wa Goro is an intellectual, writer, critic, translator and researcher from Kenya now on our . She has particular interest in the development of African languages and literature. Wa Goro is an active participant in the promotion of literary translation internationally. She has translated the works of great authors such as Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. Her writing includes essays, poetry, short stories, fiction and non-fiction. She has been very vocal in matters human rights both in Africa and in Europe. She has also been a part of boards such as the Women's Studies Network UK and the African Literature Association.

06/02/2019

Younes Baba-Ali is a visual and sound artist from Morocco. He mixes technology, objects, sound, video and photography with political, social and ecological issues to impact, influence and move his audience into making a decison or taking a stand. Graduating from l’Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg in 2008, and from l’Ecole Supérieure
d’Art d’Aix-en-Provence in 2011, he was rewarded by the prize “Léopold Sédar Senghor”, during the African
Contemporary Art Biennial of Dakar (Sn) in 2012 and the prize “Boghossian”, during the Belgian Art Prize
“Art’Contest” in Brussels (Be) in 2014.
He is now on our .

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